Love this! And thank you for this.

I came to this realization last week after two weeks of deep regret. I left my highly paying job to pursue work at a startup in an area I was passionate about and that left me in a bad taste. Ended up in another job, but felt like what was the point?

The economy didn't let me get back to my old company and I felt a lot of pity for myself for leaving my old job and being a state of despair after seeing some of my colleagues who didn't take the risk do exceedingly well.

After wallowing in self pity, I realized that I would have even more miserable had I chosen to stay and instead felt happy that I did what I wanted to do and not because everyone else was doing it. Moved onto a different role, still not high paying, but the freedom of trying things and failing whilst doing them is something I cherish.

Gonna probably fail a few more times, but given that I'm not wanting boatloads of money, the experiences and the growth learnings are worth it and probably some savings too, if not at the scale in a higher paying job.